Is it even possible? Intel P4 owners, this question is for you

[evil_gamer]

I was wondering if there is such a thing as a dual P4 motherboard is so, who has them?

[Sastraxi]

I believe the strand is called 'Xeon', look it up on Intel's website.

[Zaei]

Originally posted by Sastraxi
I believe the strand is called 'Xeon', look it up on Intel's website.

My computer has Quad Xeons... at least, thats what the case sticker says

Z.

[Jethro]

Just ask your local PC store for a dual processor motherboard. Z, tsk getting a bit carried away there mate Go on put 4 P4 2.5 chips in and load linux

[plenderj]

You can get dual/quad/8x/16x etc. for most CPU types.
Its just the motherboard that you need.

So there are definitely dual P4 motherboards available.
WindowsXP, afaik, has a technology called Processor Afinity (sp?) that will co-ordinate the processors etc.



On a side-note, Xeon processors are just another version of P4 processors.
They are designed for use in Servers.

The next step up then from Xeons I suppose would be Intel's 64bit Itanium and Itanium2 processors

[Zaei]

I know a Guy with dual processors, and apparently XP really sucks with them. Cant shedule the threads right.

Xeons have some sort of super threading architecture, that makes it appear as if there are n*2 processors in your computer, for every n processor that you really do have.

Z.

[plenderj]

Xeon, well this is how it used to be anyway, but xeons just perform floating point math far faster as far as I know.

They then have the hyperthreading technology that P4 processors have.
So they're the same in every other respect I think

[Zaei]

Originally posted by plenderj
Xeon, well this is how it used to be anyway, but xeons just perform floating point math far faster as far as I know.

They then have the hyperthreading technology that P4 processors have.
So they're the same in every other respect I think

Oooh, P4s have that hyperthreading stuff too? (Ya learn something every day).

Z.

[Judd]

...from a machine with twin 1.7 GHz Xeon processors. So yess, you can get the mobos.

[plenderj]

Twin xeon system ?
You bastard. You're banned

[Judd]

....I don't know how we swung it. I guess with only 4 developers here they try to get more work out of us by giving us beefy machines

[JoshT]

I have two dual Athlon MP 2000+ servers sitting on a table unused at work. Cheaper than Intel to build, although dual P3 motherboards are inexpensive (I have some of these as well). Intel doesn't seem to push dual P4's outside of the server market.